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Funny how, a decade ago, they called us “tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists” for suggesting such things and we were shunned by “respectable” folks in the web community afraid to lose their favoured status as Big Tech’s bottom feeders.

https://vimeo.com/96727211

#BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #capitalism #surveillance #BigWeb #web #SmallTech #ethicalTech #privacy #humanRights https://mstdn.ca/@teledyn/113489107039210087

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[–] catarinac@masto.pt 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@aral@mastodon.ar.al I hadn't seen it yet, glad you brought it back, can I use it in my lectures?

[–] aral@mastodon.ar.al 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@catarinac@masto.pt Of course :)

Here’s a more recent one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhzge9r6k4

And there are many others; please feel free to use any of them – https://duckduckgo.com/?q=aral+balkan+talk

[–] catarinac@masto.pt 1 points 3 months ago

@aral@mastodon.ar.al Thank you!

[–] AndrewDavidBaron@mastodon.teia.art 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@aral@mastodon.ar.al I quit FB the day I saw this in 2014. Haven’t looked back since. Thank you Aral.

[–] aral@mastodon.ar.al 1 points 3 months ago

@AndrewDavidBaron@mastodon.teia.art 💕

[–] Sh41@androiddev.social 1 points 3 months ago

@aral@mastodon.ar.al I remember "The camera panopticon" from about that time.

Just then I had worked on a social network a couple of years before, and it was very clear to me that if you don't pay for a service, you may be a user, but you're not the client, you're the product.

[–] smallcircles@social.coop 1 points 3 months ago

@aral@mastodon.ar.al

> Today, six years after that patent was granted, we can that this idea has progressed:
>
>> Thousands of people catching trains in the #UnitedKingdom likely had their faces scanned by #Amazon software as part of widespread #AI trials, new documents reveal. The image recognition system was used to predict travelers’ age, gender, and potential emotions — with the suggestion that the data could be used in #advertising systems in the future.

#Dystopia https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=dystopia&iax=images&ia=images